{"id":69105,"date":"2026-03-16T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-for-two-years-during-renovations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:57:14","slug":"kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-for-two-years-during-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-for-two-years-during-renovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center board votes to close for two years during renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trustees approve Trump\u2019s $257m \u2018revitalization project\u2019 to remake DC arts institution that president has taken over<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Kennedy Center board of trustees unanimously voted on Monday in favor of a controversial plan to temporarily shutter the arts institution for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/01\/kennedy-center-dc-closed-trump\">renovations<\/a>, rubber-stamping a $257m project initiated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> to remake the arts institution in line with other grand plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-dc\">Washington DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the center said it had voted for \u201ca comprehensive revitalization project\u201d lasting two years that would follow an Independence Day celebration in July with \u201ca grand re-opening to follow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/kennedy-center-closing-renovation-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trustees approve Trump\u2019s $257m \u2018revitalization project\u2019 to remake DC arts institution that president has taken over Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Kennedy Center board of trustees unanimously voted on Monday in favor of a controversial plan to temporarily shutter the arts institution for renovations, &#8230; <a title=\"Kennedy Center board votes to close for two years during renovations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-for-two-years-during-renovations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kennedy Center board votes to close for two years during renovations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}